Why do you want to read kindle on PC?
After the huge success of the Kindle 2 from Amazon, people are looking forward to accessing their Kindle books from a PC. There are a many reasons to read a kindle on a PC. You may be going out of town and do not have your electronic e-book reader with you or you may have lent your e-reader to your friend. Before leaving you definitely want to download your kindle books on your laptop so that you can read it even though you do not have your e-reader with you. There may be another important reason for you to read kindle on PC and it is simply that you do not own one. Whatever may be the reason Amazon has released Kindle for PC for this purpose. It is currently in beta version and Amazon promises to include many more features in later future versions.
The benefits of Kindle for PC
Previously Amazon's e-reader has an option to download your books to your PC, but it was only to have backup copies of your books on the e-reader. The file format created by your Kindle was not recognized by any file viewer program available in the PC market. But with the release of Kindle for PC, Amazon again made a history in the world of reading. With Kindle for PC you can connect to Amazon's book store even if you do not own a kindle. Amazon is selling many of the New York Times best sellers at $9.99. Free e-book samples in the form of first chapter of the book are available at no cost.
With the help of Whispersync you can synchronize your handheld e-reader device with your kindle for PC. This will give you an option to create bookmarks on your kindle for PC as you do on your hand-held device. Right now kindle for PC is available for windows XP with service pack 2 or higher, windows vista and windows 7. Mac compatible version is yet to be released. Moreover in the coming versions Amazon promises to include many more exciting features like - search functionality, zoom and rotate capability for images etc.
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